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E. F. LEBLOND.

APPARATUS FOR FEEDING PAPER IN CIGARETTE MACHINES. N0. 295,181. Patented Maul-8, 1884.

MNKTED Srn'rns Ari-int EUGENE F. LEBLOND, or PARIS, nnnnon.

APPARATUS FOR FEEDING PAPER IN CIGARETTE-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,181, dated March 18,1884.

Appiication filed May 29, 1583.

(So model.) Patented in France June 22, 1881, No. 143,540; in Belgium January 9, 1882,

No. 56,?11, and in England Apr-1111,1853, No. 1,830.

To aZZ whom it may concern.- Be it known that I,- EUGENE FERDINAND Lnnnon'n, a citizen of France, residing at Paris, in the French Republic, have invented new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Feeding Paper in Cigarette-Machines, (for which I have obtained apatent in France for fifteen years, No. 143,549,'bearing date June 22, 1881; Great Britain, for fourteen years, No. 1,830, hearing date April 11, 188:5, and Belgium, for fifteen years, No. 56,711, January 9, 1882,) of which the following is a specification. U

The. object of this invention is to draw variable lengths of paper, to suit the difi'erent sizes of cigarettes, by the rotary motion of the drawing-rollers in a cigarettennachine.

Figure 1 is a side view of an apparatus enibodying my invention, showing the mechanism for drawing the paper. Fig. 2 is acorresponding end view of the same mechanism. The paperp, on leaving the bobbin on which it is wound, passes under the guide-roller 0;

along the platform a), and then passes between the drawing-rollers a and b.- Beyond this point a knife cuts the strip of paper in the length required. It is then delivered to the tube-making machinery. The roller a turns with its gudgeons a, one of which has a pinion, (Z, fixed to it, which pinion is made to revolve by the reciprocating lack a. This rack c, suitably guided in the part c of the frame, is reoiprocated by a lever, f, said lever being oscillated atf by a cam mounted on the drivingshaft of the apparatus. This'rack c is connected with the lever f by means of a rod, 0, whose lower end can be adjusted in the slotted end of the lever f, so as to increase or reduce the stroke of the rack and the movements of the cylinder at. The upper roller, b, has its gudgeons so arranged in the sup ports as to admit of its being raised or lowered so as to press on the roller a, or be raised from the same. To this endthe gudgenus of the roller are grasped by the heads 9 of two levers, g, oscillating at g. The said levers are connected with each other by a cross-bar, 9 on which-the links h h are articulated. These links, which are also united by a cross-bar, h, are connected with a slide, It, which is joined by a link, m, to an oscillating lever, Z. The levers (l are also connected at s, by a cross-bar, which governs the lowering of a presser, q, whose stem is surmounted by a spring, 1", and whose foot, when the levers descend, presses on the strip of paper 1). The levers g are also subjected to the action of two spiral springs, i, fixed to the gndgeons of the roller 1), and to parts of the frame.

The following is a description of the action of the apparatus: With reference to Fig 1, it. will be observed that the rack c is about to ascend and to communicate to the pinion d, and also to the cylinder a, rotary motion in the direction of the curved arrow, which, in

conjunction with the cylinder 12 and springs 25, efl'ects a drawing of the paper.

When the rack is at the end of its upward stroke, it stops to allow the rollerb time to rise and the presser q to descend to keep the paper in position; The rack then descends, causing the drawing-roller a to turn in the opposite direction; but as the roller b is now raised, and the paper is firmly held by the presser q, the reverse rotation of the roller o no longer at'-- fects the paper.

As the rotation of the roller 0: can be varied, different lengths of paper can be drawn by changing the position of the pin which connects the shaft 0 with thelever j.

In place of the spiral springs t t, producing the downward pressure of the roller 1), flat springs may be employed, fixed above the sup- 2. The combination of the drawing-rollers is lifted, and when the drawingrollers are a b. and mechanism, substantially as demoved apart the presser is lowered upon the scribed, for turning them and holding them platform, substantially as specified.

together, with the presser q, mechanism for EUGENE FERDINASD LEBLOSD. svmoving it up and down, as described, and Viitnes'ses:

platform 00', all arranged so that when the, A. BLETRY,

drawing-rollers are held together the presser I 120313. M. I-IOOPER; 

